A good part of the land animals availiable as AC get scent but no birds, not even the vulture.
Why is that so?
Is it supposed to be a balancing factor or do people really think that a vulture's sense of smell is that weak?
Police sniffer dogs are facing fresh competition when it comes to tracking down dead bodies - from vultures.
Detectives in Germany hope one of the scavengers - called 'Sherlock' - could be the first of many to help with investigations.
They want to harness Sherlock's incredible sense of smell to locate corpses in remote areas.
A GPS tracking device is attached to his leg and off he goes.
The problem is that vultures will typically be flying outside the radius scent works at.
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A good part of the land animals availiable as AC get scent but no birds, not even the vulture.
Why is that so?
Is it supposed to be a balancing factor or do people really think that a vulture's sense of smell is that weak?
Almost all animals in Pathfinder have fairly serious flaws in how they're depicted mechanically. The rules just don't really handle the massive range of abilities that animals have in real life. In order to do so would require far more page space and effort than would be warranted.
Either house rule particular features that bother you (eg, vultures smelling dead things, eagles able to see things miles away, etc) or live with it. In a home game I prefer the first where animals get at least a little bit of reality modifications. But its a lot of work and requires a lot of knowledge.
My problem is that I would like to build a falconer ranger while having an AC that can benefit from pheromone arrows.
Maybe Golarian vultures are condors. :P (They hunt by sight, not smell, as opposed to turkey vultures. Thank you, National Geographic!)